Administration Console Online Help

Start and stop a Web
Service

After you install a Web
Service, you must start it so that client applications are able to
invoke it. You can stop the Web Service if you want to prevent client
applications from invoking it, but you do not want to delete the Web
Service from your domain.

When you start a Web Service, you can specify that it go into
Production or Administration mode. In Production mode, the Web Service
is available to all clients. WebLogic Server transitions the application
to Administration mode after it copies deployment files to target
Managed Servers and clusters and validates the deployment configuration.
Administration mode restricts access to an application to a configured
Administration channel. You can distribute an application into a
production environment (or distribute a new version of an application)
without opening the application to external client connections.

To start or stop a Web Service:

In the left
pane of the Administration Console, select
Deployments.

In the right
pane, select the Web Service you want to start or stop by clicking the
check box to the left of the deployed name of the Enterprise
Application, Web application, or EJB in which the Web Service is
packaged.

Note: Web Services are deployed as part of an Enterprise
Application, Web Application or EJB. Therefore, to start or stop a
Web Service, you start or stop the J2EE module or application in
which it is packaged. To understand how Web Services are displayed
in the Administration Console, see View installed Web
Services.